Biden will stand up for workers

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Patrick Carleton is vice president of the Maine AFL-CIO. The celebration of Maine workers should continue for far longer than just a three-day weekend. Maine has over 160 local labor unions that represent over 40,000 working men and women and retirees across the state. All Maine workers — unionized or not — deserve recognition every day of the year. Maine has a long, robust history of collective bargaining — and of electing leaders to office who value the rights of workers. These essential workers — lobstermen,...